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For those deeply invested in protecting and widening the abortion license, the Kermit Gosnell case has thrown light in all the wrongplaces. Today, the Washington Post has another disturbing story about Live Action’s latest undercover investigation of abortion clinics. It’s not Gosnell Gruesome, but the insouciance of one of the abortionists involved is sickening just the same.

The Post reports:

One video features a D.C. doctor, Cesare Santangelo, who said that in the unlikely event that an abortion resulted in a live birth, “we would not help it.” Santangelo was answering repeated questions from an undercover operative about what would happen, hypothetically, if she gave birth after an unsuccessful abortion.

“I mean, technically, you know, legally, we would be obligated to help it, you know, to survive, but . . . it probably wouldn’t,” Santangelo is shown telling the woman, who was 24 weeks pregnant. “It’s all in how vigorously you do things to help a fetus survive at this point.”

Santangelo stands by his position.

In an interview with The Washington Post, Santangelo said he was trying to reassure the woman, who turned out to be an undercover operative of the group, Live Action. In reality, he said, he would call 9-1-1. But he said he stands by what he said on tape.

“What I said is, basically I wouldn’t do anything extraordinary,” he said Saturday. “We would call EMS. We would call 9-1-1. But I wouldn’t do intubation or anything. . . . You let nature take its course.”

Let nature take its course? What is abortion if not a lethal intervention precisely intended to prevent nature from “taking its course,” the natural course being the sustaining of life?

“Once the baby is born, it’s out of everybody’s hands, and the baby has rights, too,” [Santangelo] said. “I understand that and I support that.”

Having to save the life of a baby who has just survived an abortion doesn’t just reveal the profound moral contradiction of our abortion regime in the starkest possible terms. On a more immediate level, such life-saving treatment defeats the entire purpose of abortion. Abortion advocates talk of “terminating a pregnancy,” yet even Santangelo would never confuse an abortion and, say, a caesarean section—both of which are medical interventions meant to bring pregnancy to a conclusion. The essential difference, then, is that an abortion “procedure” is only deemed “successful” if it ends a life. Under the current abortion regime, the “right to choose” entails not only the right to choose whether or not to be pregnant; it entails the right to a dead baby. Being left with a living baby is an affront to “human rights” enshrined in the abortion license.

As for Live Action, their non-violent efforts to defend the least among us by shining a light on the abortion industry’s moral obtuseness have earned Santangelo’s special contempt:

He said he has not watched the video because “I don’t like to feed into these people. I really consider them terrorists.”

3 thoughts on “The Right to a Dead Baby”

I believe a Dr. has a legal duty to provide help to someone who needs it. The Dr admits once the child is born alive it is a person. So he has to help the person. Just as an off-duty police officer can not stand by and watch a crime take place. I could be wrong about a legal duty. But at least a Dr has a moral duty. Oh but how oximoronic: a moral duty from an abortion Dr.

Sant Angelo is not ironic. It is completely appropriate: demons are simply fallen angels, angels who have chosen rebellion against Love. Fallen angels cannot repent; fallen humans can. Want to defeat abortion? Pray a Rosary for Santangelo every day for a year.

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